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There's STAIRS in Elrond's house now
Who is responsible for this
I definitely get the feeling sometimes that I'm in the "before the end" flashback portions of a scifi novel
I don’t have to worry about "chemicals you can’t pronounce" in my food and my shampoo because I can pronounce every chemical flawlessly and without effort. Butylated hydroxytoluene. Ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid. Fenugreek. I am saying these out loud and laughing at you. I’m immune to all known carcinogens. I can never die. Fight me.
FINDUILAS
Day 5 of Arafinwean Week!
hm. poll. bc a streamer i watch mentioned "getting dressed" to spend all day at home playing a video game
(NOTE: for the purposes of this poll "real clothes"=whatever u would wear outside normally, pajamas=whatever ur comfy sleep clothes are. could be actual fancii pajamas could be boxers and a big shirt i dont care. if you sleep naked idk man)
#i might be an outlier because i actually find jeans comfy#at least the ones i buy#but the two things i NEED out of clothes are#one - has pockets#and two - i can sit in any position without showing my bits#usually that means comfy pants of some kind and a loose t shirt#but ultimately counts as 'getting dressed' to some degree#also i sleep in undies or naked#so I gotta put something on eventually
you know how bilbo has what he calls his “tookish side,” aka the adventurous slightly impulsive side. elrond is the same, except instead of tookish it’s finwean, and he doesnt actually say it aloud.
So I was just thinking about LOTR and the movies vs the books. And honestly there's a lot of things I wish the movies had done differently and I could rant about them for hours.
But the more I think of it, one of the main issues, or like the largest thing, one of the things that isn't just a small detail, is Aragorn's portrayal. The movies, understandably, cut out a lot of things from a lot of characters, Aragorn included. For the most part what I tend to point out about him is little nitpicky details, mostly certain jokes and funny things they cut out (like Aragorn getting really dramatic about Having To Leave His Cool Sword At The Door at Edoras, because like seriously, that was funny as hell, but he gets Anduril so much later in the movies that it doesn't happen).
But I feel like beyond that, the movies just really left out a lot of the nuance and depth that makes the character interesting to me. The humor/funnier side of him being cut out is in a way part of that, but it extends to other aspects as well. Such as, I feel like, really the sense of age and experience his character has, the feeling that this is a character who's seen pretty much every corner of the known world, who's lived and known so much joy and so much pain already. The sense of wisdom coming from long experience that the character has, that I feel like kind of is what makes him the most fitting leader to the Fellowship when Gandalf dies. So much of it is just kind of lost. So ultimately in the movies he just ends up coming across as... really kind of a relatively basic Fantasy Hero.
And it's like... don't get me wrong, he's still kinda cool, and Viggo Mortensen plays the character he was given very well! Aragorn is still fun to watch in the movies! But it just feels like he's kind of... reduced and altered into a fairly ordinary fantasy hero who struggles with His Great Destiny in a way that I don't feel like he ever was in the book? I'm also not a fan of romance in general so the amount of focus the movies put on the Aragorn/Arwen romance ends up being a little dull to me, but that's a personal preference. But just. Like, the parts of Aragorn that got cut from the movies are largely the exact same parts of him that really make him interesting and make him stand out from other fantasy characters to me. The movie version just doesn't feel as... idk, unique, I guess. And like I get that there are always things adaptations must sacrifice for the sake of the story, and LOTR is just such a massive work that there's no way one movie trilogy ever could include every single moment that brings more nuance to some character or thing or plot point, but I feel like they could have been able to keep more of Aragorn's nuance in the movies if they had wanted to.
Ok so I'm tired and in pain cuz once a month my reproductive organs decide to make my life hell so I wasn't able to articulate this very well, sorry about that. If you want me to elaborate you can ask and I may add onto this when my brains decide to actually be present. Or feel free to add your own commentary if you feel like it!
Actually, fuck it. I'm gonna elaborate, whether or not anyone cares or wants to know. Aside from a few petty things that are about personal preferences, not plot, most of my issues regarding Aragorn's characterization in the movies can be condensed into the comparison of two quotes, one from the movies, one from the books.
"Put aside the Ranger. Become who you were born to be." –Elrond (The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, 2003, written by Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, and Peter Jackson, directed by Peter Jackson)
"I am Strider and Dúnadan too, and I belong both to Gondor and the North." –Aragorn (The Two Towers, Chapter 9 - Flotsam and Jetsam, by J.R.R. Tolkien)
Okay: Language usage question, because I must know:
You would use the word "floor" (as opposed to, say, "ground") to describe the surface you are standing on:
A) Only if you are inside a human made structure such as a house, building etc and only if the surface is also human made (carpet, cement, etc.)
B) As A, but also if you are standing inside a structure such as a tent or shack on natural dirt or grass, etc.
C) As A, not as B, but also if you are outside and standing on a human made surface such as a deck, cement, asphalt etc.
D) Inside or outside, human made or natural, if you're standing on it, it's the floor.
Asking because I've noticed that a lot of people use words differently than I do. Put where you live in the tags if you want
i'm curious
you can check which movie it was here!
pls reblog and put in the tags which movie it was :)
You ever think how many more furries there would be if kingdom hearts one or two had included a lion king world and a lion form for sora?
Legally I’m required to also show you this image. Apologies to your retinas.
Reblog and put in the tags what you think of when I say “The gay people musical”
Say what you want about the ethics of AI art and writing, but I have seen people playing around with these things and the outputs they get; "requires no skill or talent" is simply false, and "lazy" is ridiculous. If you're going to make arguments, make good ones.
So this is happening. My uni is closed and I finally have all day for myself! Let’s do some corona sketches then
I guess it's no wonder Tolkien had a certain idea of Evil as ultimately leading to barrenness and sorrow even for the evildoer. If you can only conceive of Evil as ULTIMATE SELFISHNESS then yeah, obviously that's where you're gonna end up. But if you tweak the formula slightly toward "selfishness for a large group of people to which I belong, evil toward all outsiders"...you can live a long, happy life on that premise! Surrounded by allies who genuinely love amd support you! And never, ever get your comeuppance on this Earth while you cause vast amounts of suffering for others! We've seen it happen over and over again; it's happening now. And idk, it makes sense that a middle class Brit from the early 20th century could only see the faintest glimmer of this.
PSA to anyone about to start Dracula Daily:
- Jonathan is spelled with one o and one h
- Quincey is spelled with an e
- Jack is the same name as John
- van Helsing is spelled with a lower case v
- Seward doesn't have a t in it
- Westenra is spelled with the n before the r
- Mina is short for Wilhelmina
- Bloofer is a phonetic spelling of "beautiful"
- Bersicker is a phonetic spelling of "berserker"
- The “L” is before the “S” in Helsing
- Jonathan and John are different names and not interchangeable